Leisure as a resource in transcending negative life events: self protection, self restoration and personal transformation
Abstract
Negative life events, such as the unexpected loss of a loved one, a disabling accident or a natural disaster, are inevitably distressing and disruptive. Coping with and recovering from such events generally requires a variety of personal and social resources. Previous research on leisure and coping has suggested that leisure orientations and relationships can be important in reducing the likelihood that stress becomes debilitating in some way. But the results of that work are equivocal and generally do not distinguish leisure resources that make events less stressful from those that are employed in coping with stressful events after they occur. This analysis examines the leisure-coping literature as well as recent work on the dynamics of coping and the impact of pleasant events and concludes in identifying four distinguishable functions of leisure that relate to self-protection, self-restoration, and personal transformation.
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The compensation notion in work-nonwork interface and leisure crafting literature suggests individuals actively compensate for undesired states in one life domain via activities in another.
“This notion of compensation is embedded within the work-nonwork interface and LC literature, which suggests that individuals actively compensate for undesired states (e.g., a lack of thriving at work) in one life domain (i.e., work) via activities in another (i.e., leisure; Geurts and Demerouti, 2003;Kleiber et al., 2002;Petrou and Bakker, 2016).”
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- Authors
- Kleiber, D. A., Hutchinson, S. L., & Williams, R.
- Affiliations
- University of Georgia (US)
- b The Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pennsylvania
- East Carolina University (US)
- Venue
- Leisure Sciences
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2002-04
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 219-235
- ISSN
- 0149-0400 (ISSN-L)
- 1521-0588
- OpenAlex
- W2039604496
- Cited by
- 518
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 15.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Leisure Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Resilience and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Keywords
- leisure, negative life events, coping, self-protection, self-restoration, personal transformation, stress, bereavement, natural disasters, disability
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